Sentence examples for authority is divided from inspiring English sources

Today, regulatory authority is divided among the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, state banking regulators and state insurance regulators.

The EU's legislative authority is divided between the Council and the Parliament.

The authority is divided into 15 wards, each of which is represented by two or three local councillors, forming a total council of 37 members.

The authority is divided into a higher and lower authority, with the higher authority (public prosecutor) being a separate government agency and the lower authority (police prosecutor) being members of the police.

Responsibility and authority are divided among a group of aides, some of them also consumed with the complexities of governing.

Authority was divided among various rulers at the main and other capitals, and in an elaborate system of councils at each capital.

His most recent book is The Episcopal Church in Crisis: How Sex, the Bible and Authority are Dividing the Faithful, published in 2008 by Greenwood/Praeger as part of the "Religion, Politics, and Public Life Series" under the auspices of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.

In Iraq itself British authorities were divided on the issue.

Authorities are divided as to whether it was the capital of a great political empire.

The city of Nogales, Sonora (across the border from Nogales, Arizona) has seen 72 murders so far this year, compared with 44 in 2007.Despite talk of a united front, the Mexican authorities are divided over how to tackle the problem.

Similarly, when there is controversy, and authorities are divided, it is an error to base one's view on the authority of just some of them.